Hard Work, Merriment, NYT

Got to play washboard with the Rolling Roots Revue of Wepecket Island Records last night at the Wamsutta Club in New Bedford! Complete surprise to be asked.

Cleaned out leaves and composted the peony (also fertilized with 5-10-5), blueberries and backyard Montauks yesterday.

We bought the last six bags of Rooster compost from Valley Farm in Pocasset; doughnuts from the Beach Plum Bakery; and a vegetable slicer on one-day sale from Williams Sonoma.

On Friday, Ron sawed broken tree limbs and cut them up for a transfer station run yesterday. Took him most of the afternoon.

Had a stress test on Friday, did “good enough” to be cleared for surgery, but the doc wanted me to come back for another test later this month.

Ron’s been helping me with eye drops. Yesterday, we brought a box of my LPs downstairs.

I made macaroons and Bistek Tagalog yesterday, oatmeal and chicken pot pie today.

Ron did laundry.

We did the transfer station run and more yardwork: watering, composting. Cleaned up the “stuff” that has been behind and next to the shed for months. Tossed some, cleaned some, recycled some.

Ron may have seen a hummer today.

NYT published my question for the workplace ethicist today. His answer was both helpful and kind.